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Judy Moody is starting third grade and she is in a mood—a very bad mood! In fact, she isn’t excited to start school at all until her teacher assigns the class a special “Me Project” where Judy can really express herself. Ages 6-12.

Judy Moody is starting third grade and she is in a mood—a very bad mood! In fact, she isn’t excited to start school at all until her teacher assigns the class a special “Me Project” where Judy can really express herself. Ages 6-12.

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Judy Moody is starting third grade and she is in a mood—a very bad mood! In fact, she isn’t excited to start school at all until her teacher assigns the class a special “Me Project” where Judy can really express herself. Ages 6-12.

Yet another kids book series that everyone should read, preferably when they're in elementary school. But if you haven't read it yet, check it out. The firs book you can probably get through pretty quick.

Judy Moody is in a mood. It's the first day of school and she is separated from her best friend Rocky. He gets to sit in the back of the class while forced to sit at the front, next to Frank "Eats Paste" Pearl. To make matters worse, Frank invites Judy to his birthday party, something Judy is not really wanting to do.

And so starts the first instalment of the Judy Moody series, focusing on a tom boy heroine who is not afraid to play jokes on her brother and hang out with boys. Good for the non-princess girls in your life.

Read this book in the third grade. Hated it with a passion. I'm sure I would have appreciated it more had I read it in my Grade 1 Junie B. Jones phase. By grade 3 I had moved on to more "sophisticated literature".

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After school finishes for the summer third grader, Judy Moody sets out to have the most thriller summer of her life. However, her parents are going away to California, and she and her brother, Stink are staying home with their Aunt Opal . She decides to make a "Thrill Points" list for herself and her friends to go by: "The Judy Moody Mega-Rare NOT a Bummer Summer Dare". But her plan backfires when she discovers her friends are getting more thrill points than her. To keep up her not-bummer summer goal, she, along with her awesome Aunt Opal, decides to help Stink catch Bigfoot.